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Short Bio

Dr. Laurence T. Yang’s research includes high performance computing and networking, embedded systems, ubiquitous/pervasive computing and intelligence.

He has published around 280 papers in refereed journals, conference proceedings and book chapters in these areas. He has been involved in more than 100 conferences and workshops as a program/general conference chair and more than 200 conference and workshops as a program committee member. He served as the vice-chair of IEEE Technical Committee of Supercomputing Applications (TCSA) until 2004, currently is the chair of IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC), the chair of IEEE Task force on Intelligent Ubiquitous Computing and the co-chair of IEEE Task force on Autonomic and Trusted Computing. He is also in the executive committee of IEEE Technical Committee of Self-Organization and Cybernetics for Informatics, and of IFIP Working Group 10.2 on Embedded Systems, and of IEEE Technical Committee of Granular Computing.

In addition, he is the editors-in-chief of 10 international journals and few book series. He is serving as an editor for around 20 international journals. He has been acting as an author/co-author or an editor/co-editor of 30 books from Kluwer, Springer, Nova Science, American Scientific Publishers and John Wiley & Sons. He has won four Best Paper Awards (including the IEEE 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-06)); one IEEE Best Paper Award, 2007; one IEEE Outstanding Paper Award, 2007; one Best Paper Nomination; Distinguished Achievement Award, 2005; Distinguished Contribution Award, 2004; Outstanding Achievement Award, 2002; Canada Foundation for Innovation Award, 2003; University Research/Publication/Teaching Award 99-02/02-05/05-07.http://